Briny
Equivalents
Examples
“[Julian] Barnes wrote “Nothing to Be Frightened Of” when he was 62. He just turned 80. This briny English writer, author of “Flaubert’s Parrot” (1984) and a winner of the Booker Prize, for “The Sense⟳ of an Ending” (2011), now has a rare form⟳ of blood cancer, treatable but exhausting and uncurable.”
“I thought I would go to the sea and shrink⟳ down very tiny / And slide⟳ inside the telephone wire that runs under the briny”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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